SUMMARY:

• Self driven IT professional with 8 plus years experience working with Technology and Business units in a Project Manager with Business Analysis role in the Financial Services and Healthcare industry.
• Directly managed or assisted small and complex full cycle SDLC projects end to end, from Initiation to Closing.
• Experienced in Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies. Known for ability to produce high - quality deliverables that meet targets.
• Delivered project needs on time and within the agreed acceptance criteria in a hybrid methodology environment as the organization attempted to transition to an Agile Methodology.
• Organized and facilitated daily Scrum meetings using JIRA and RTC which included Sprint Planning meetings, Sprint Reviews/Demo, Back log Grooming sessions & Retrospective sessions.
• Worked with the Product Owner closely to prioritize the Backlog items. Provided daily communications, scrum notes, sprint reviews reports, and regular snapshots of project velocity and budget burn rate using burn down charts.
• Created or assisted project plan creation and monitoring, capturing and managing project risks, issues and dependencies and tracking deliverables through implementation.
• Proven ability to multitask and work on multiple projects simultaneously in a dynamic environment and work with all levels of management.
• Excellent communicator; leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams. Pays attention to detail.
• Proficient in Project and Business Analysis documentation like Project Charter, BRD, FRD, Test strategy documents.
• Experienced in creating Process flows, Data Flows, Use Cases and reports design.
• Team player with excellent collaboration skills within a cross functional global team.
• Met hard dates on many regulatory projects through proper scope creation, tight planning, executing and monitoring skills on those projects.
• Demonstrated strong leadership skills e.g. Took over a highly talented but demotivated offshore team and transformed them into a high performing team in a short period of time.
• Excellent Team and Stakeholder and Vendor management skills.
• Proven Conflict management, risk management and timely escalation skills.
• Proactive and possesses quick learning, planning, problem solving, and organization skills
• Known to work on projects with a personal sense of ownership and responsibility.
• Good Experience working on tools like PPM Clarity, RTC, MS project and JIRA with XConfluence, HP Quality Center (ALM).
• Solid experience of creating QA ad UAT test plans and scripts and managing the UAT process.
• Adept and quick at understanding new business areas, systems and adapting as per need.

PERSONAL SKILLS:

Self-motivated performer, focused, resilient, is goal oriented, can perform under high stress, proven leadership qualities, is approachable, possesses good planning and problem-solving skills.

SKILL:

• Project Management (Agile and Waterfall)
• Business Analysis
• Scrum methodologies
• Stakeholder Management
• Release Planning
• Vendor Management
• Process Improvement

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Scrum Master/Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating and managing the Integrated Vendor Replacement Project Agile project plan. Worked closely with the Associate Principal Consultant in maintaining and tracking the Budget/Financials for this project.
• Conducted timeboxed daily 15 mins Scrum standups with the multiple scrum teams to go over what was done yesterday, what will be done today and blockers if any.
• Conducted Sprint planning meetings at the start of each sprint to define and get agreement on the story points, sprint goals, sprint backlog and the definition of DONE .
• Conducted Weekly scrum of scrums meeting with multiple scrum teams who were delivering work through an enterprise level Sprint schedule.
• Conducted regular, mostly mid - sprint Backlog grooming sessions Product Owner to maintain the Backlog. This grooming was integral to sprint planning.
• Conducted demos/sprint reviews at the end of each sprint by reviewing user stories to see if the delivery meets the sprint goal and adjust backlog if needed.
• Conducted Retrospective sessions at the end of each Sprint, before the next Sprint planning to capture the what went well, what did not and identify improvements for the next sprint.
• Made effective use of the burndown chart to track progress of the work being done.

Confidential, Pittsburgh PA

VP- Lead Manager, Application Development

Responsibilities:

• Navigated the complexities of serving in a multifaceted role with varied and changing responsibilities as needed to support the Tradeflow application team.
• Playing the role of Project Manager/Scrum master in critical agile projects and working close with the Agile Platform Management team/Product Owner.
• Conducted daily 15 min Scrum meetings to quickly have individual team member share work done yesterday, work planned today, and impediments if any.
• Facilitated Sprint Planning reviews at the start of each Sprint, Sprint reviews/demo at the end of the Sprint, Product Backlog grooming mid sprint to help sprint planning sessions and Retrospective session at the end of the sprint. Made effective use of Burn down chart and other reports in Jira to track progress.
• Managing a diverse team of QA analysts offshore. This includes new resources and overall provide testing management support to other Project Managers on their projects.
• Providing onshore management oversight and managing the test resourcing needs of onshore teams that need test support.
• Worked with the vendor Fiserv and Tradeflow to create and manage a robust helpdesk ticket management process.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Senior Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked in the Risk Management, Compliance and Technology division of the bank to support the STX Oracle Mantas application (vendor application) and Oracle BTC (Broker Trade Compliance) application and work with cross functional AML Line of Business and technical teams on tactical (small projects) and strategic initiatives (complex projects) planned within the Risk, Compliance, and Technology Governance division of the Bank.
• Performed end to end Business analysis with Project Management activities in full cycle SDLC projects which are Discovery, Scope definition, creating Business requirements and Functional Requirements (planning elicitation, analysis, validation and documentation), testing (QA and UAT), Requirement traceability, creating/assisting project plans, monitoring them.

Confidential, Coraopolis, PA

Senior Business Analyst/Project lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked as BA/Project Lead on independent big projects and portfolios (group of small projects).
• Responsible for end to end project management on those smaller projects which included scope definition and management, estimation, BRD reviews, requirements management i.e. requirements planning, gathering, analyzing, verifying, communicating and documenting FRD, getting sign offs, offering Development/QA support (Testing in some cases)
• Provided end user on new/modified functionality as needed.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked independently in a cross functional team to elicit requirements from the Business and SME's.
• Defined and documented detailed business and Functional requirements for the Bank Side, Admin/ Client - Side Admin and Payments modules. Performed requirement traceability.
• Maintained the Decisions' documents throughout the tenure on the project.
• Studied and researched all major Treasury Management Service Applications to understand what's best for project module.